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Asked by Sneha

The count of bacteria in a certain experiment was increasing at the rate of 2 per hour. Find the bacteria at the end of 2 hours if the count was initially 500000.
8 years ago

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Answered by Steve
Surely you mean either

2% per hour
or
doubling every 2 hours.

That would make the population either

500,000 * 1.02^2
or
500,000 * 2^1
8 years ago

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